Girls on Tape

If you’ve ever wanted to try to make a radio story, here is the perfect opportunity. Each year The Third Coast Festival puts out a call for short radio documentaries called The Short Docs Challenge. Four winners will get flown to Chicago to attend the conference in October. (All of your public radio crushes will be there in the flesh.) Anyone can enter! Here is the theme for this year:

Produce a short audio story (2 -3 minutes) that features at least two of your neighbors, includes a color in the title, and contains three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. Stories of all styles are welcome — from documentary to drama — and everything in between.

Who would you interview and what would you call yours? (The creepy young guy downstairs who BLASTS Celine Dion at 3pm most days and Abuelita Hortencia, “Silencio is Golden.”)